Blog – Antonio Fantasia

April 05, 2018

Night of a Regime published on Gare de l’Est Magazine

I’m very glad that my photographic project Night of a Regime about former communist abandoned places in Albania has been published in one of the coolest French magazines regarding Eastern European countries! Check here where to buy it or how to order online.

November 22, 2017

Night of a Regime: the video interview

The journey through Albania’s abandoned communist sites is not only a photographic one. It combines also oral testimonies of people who experienced these particular places during the communist period, or who are today engaged in adaptive reuse projects. The goal is both to restore the collective and historical memory connected to these sites and to…

April 14, 2016

Taking part to the Tirana International Photo Festival

I am glad and honored to take part to 2016 Tirana International Photo Festival. See you in Tirana on April, 18 or in Paris in November!

October 30, 2015

The Migrants’ Revolution

There is an incredible number of people marching only 5 hours away from where I live, Tirana. They cross Macedonian and Serbian borders. They come from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan… There is an unstoppable flow of people walking towards “fortress Europe”, hoping somehow to cross its borders and possibly benefit from the protection and solidarity that…

August 10, 2015

Judging a book by its cover

There say that you should not judge a book by its cover. True. But what if the cover and a book are so perfectly put together with its content? what if you put together Raymond Carver and his brutal depiction of the common people’s lives, and Todd Hido who describes intimate stories happening in our houses by just staying few meters outside, at night? I loved Carter’s Cathedral and I had…

June 25, 2015

Elections in Albania

Last weekend I have participated to the OSCE/ODHIR monitoring mission for the municipality elections in Albania. We were the only team with a 4×4 in Shkodra region: that’s way our area of competence was the northern mountainous region (but also because I’ve explicitly ask for it!): Malesi i Madhe. From Shkodra, it took us 2…

June 15, 2015

Why another blog on photography?

Why an other blog on photography? Something very different to say? Something that really matter? Yes, could be. Following posts and debates will tell us. At the moment I can start only from my need: sharing thought about photography (thus sharing feelings) with all those people I physically cannot easily meet for a beer (or…

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